2. esp and Course Evaluation In every teaching, evaluation is an important component in assisting teachers to fulfill their roles

3.2. Setting and participants

current study was carried out at a state university in Turkey. The university had been running the reading skills course within the framework of a bilateral agreement which was signed in 2005 with a Bulgarian university. With the collaboration of both universities, an office named as Bulgaria Meeting Center had been set up to process the applications of Turkish students who wanted to study in Bulgaria on the condition that they passed the university entrance exam and were qualified to be placed in a bachelors program in Turkey. In the office, there was staff appointed by the Bulgarian university to work on their behalf in Turkey. One of the terms in the agreement was asking the Turkish university to prepare the students who were accepted to the Bulgarian university. The preparation was mainly focusing on the study of English language which was the medium of instruction at the Bulgarian university. In that context, the course practitioner was chosen as the main participant of this study. The practitioner, who had been running the reading skills course for 5 years at the time of data collection, was a lecturer at the English language teaching department of the Turkish University, and had 15 years of teaching experience. He was originally from Bulgaria, and all the ESP courses had been taught by him possibly because he was thought to establish a better rapport with students who were going to study at a Bulgarian University. Additionally, he was also studying for his PhD degree in English language teaching, and at that time was also taking ESP courses as part of coursework in the doctoral program.